"Richard Erlacher" <richard_at_idcomm.com> said:
>What??? They've got 'em again??? I'd best get down there and snag a couple!
>Those are among a very few decent items they've had in the 25 years or so
>since I first visited RS. It has a wire stripper in the handle, IIRC.
>That's one of the handiest tools I've had. It is quite capable of producing
>highly serviceable wraps, yet doesn't require you to mess up your circuit.
What happened, did everyone throw away their electric wire wraping guns???
I still have mine. :-> With it's power cord it's too big to misplace, what
I keep losing is the unwrapping tool. Does this tool (P/N: 276-1570A) have
a unwrapping tool at one end??
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> said:
>(I was dumbfounded to find someone that more or less knew what I was
>talking about).
I was just in a Radio Shack to pick up two sets of mono phono plugs
(earphone,microphone,remote) to build my own Sorcerer dual cassette
cable. Now I remembered that on cassette recorders, the earphone
and the microphone plug are the same size and the remote is smaller.
But I couldn't remember the sizes, so since the saleman was in my face
to help, I ask if he could show me a cassette recorder. I wanted to
compare the size of the jacks to the plugs. He show me several, they
only had earphone jacks. I said don't you have any cassette recorders?
It took him a couple of minutes to find one, but it had no remote jack!!!
All this time, he kept asking "what is it you want to record", and I would
say "computer data". Ten second seconds later he would ask again.
In between he would say "Oh, we would not have anything like that!"
Again I scolded myself for going to Radio Shack without knowing exactly
what I wanted.
So if you have a cassette recorder with a remote jack, hang on to it,
"it's a good thing".
--Doug
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